The Visual Blind Date

This was my first major introduction to photography and visual (digital) media. We had met briefly before in crowded rooms, hurriedly given each other’s names by mutual acquaintances before wandering our own separate ways to the dessert tables. But this week, it was just the two of us. It started with the basics, our histories, and fumbling through a first conversation.

• Read and reflect- The Horrible Wonder of a Wandering Caterpillar
• Examples post –Bits of a Life Time So Far From an iPhone 5SE Camera
• 20 min photo blitz- A Dorm Room Exposition

Then the true colors began to fly. We really got to know each other in through of the most telling situations: stress. You can really see a lot of someone’s character when they are stressed, or just in any less than optimal situation. I was certainly in that situation.

I completed the fourteen stars due this week here on the blog.

• 3 Stars ds106 Assignments: Combophoto – A Weapon? Art? New Species? Deep Meaning?

• 4 Stars Poetry Art and Design – A Dark Valentine

• 3 Stars ds106 Assignments: That’s Not What I Expected – Can You Make a Xylophone Out of This?

• 3 Stars ds106 Assignments: Glitch Art – One Broken Tech is Another Man’s Art

• 4 stars ds106 Assignments photo to gif  – Ice Skaters and Oldie Diners

Although I had a lot of fun trying new things out in this media, it was tainted by the fact that I was so stressed about getting it all done. It was difficult to enjoy creation when I was hurrying to get it finished on time. Let’s just say we started out the week with a coffee date and ended it with a rushed dinner when we both had more pressing places to be.

The daily creates were, as always, very fun and relatively lighthearted.

@ds106dc #tdc3671 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is pic.twitter.com/7iNQyMs1ir

— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) January 30, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3672 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is Tater Aligator pic.twitter.com/VuX2fZ5SmD

— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) January 31, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3673 My response for Today's #ds106 The dorm room is rather small, but the windows are large enough to make up for it. The roommate is very polite, we have united in our frequent quests to vending machine. The air con is a little fidgety but not too bad. 4/5

— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) February 1, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3675 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is https://t.co/xlpd6SLr0K

— Rufous Thrush (@rufous_t) February 3, 2022

I commented on nine posts this week and was encouraged to see other people’s work. It was cool how people had other approaches to similar assignments or creates.

So after this week of visual digital media, I don’t know if this start was too rocky for us to build a stable relationship on or not. We’ll see if they text me back.